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Portrait of Patricia Moyes Photo: Evening Standard/Hulton Archive/Getty Images (1970)

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Moyes, Patricia

Patricia Moyes was born Patricia Pakenham-Walsh in Dublin, Ireland. She was educated at Overstone School in Northampton 1934–39 and served in the Women’s Auxiliary Air Force (WAAF) during the Second World War, achieving the rank of flight officer. After the war she was hired by Peter Ustinov as an assistant after which she was assistant editor of English Vogue between 1953 and 1958. She spent a la...

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Cesare Paul Randollph

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Methodist pastor in a rich congregation in Chicago, which gives him the possibility to live in a luxury flat (owned by the congregation) and to indulge in expensive clothes, good food and beautiful women – including his future wife, the TV star Samantha Stack. But Reverand Randollph, a former football-star in the NFL, also helps the members of his congregation, especially when a murder has been c...

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